Taliesin
- fl. 6th century
- Welsh poets
renowned British poet, known both as a historical poet at the court of Urien and other rulers and as a more fictionalised persona of supreme status. Poems attributed to him survive in the 14th-century manuscript now known as the Book of Taliesin (NLW Peniarth 2).
See also: UrienUrien
(fl. c.560–c.580)
Urien Rheged
Ruler of Rheged, son of Cynfarch and identified in genealogies as a descendant of Coel Hen.
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(fl. c.560–c.580)
Urien Rheged
Ruler of Rheged, son of Cynfarch and identified in genealogies as a descendant of Coel Hen.
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Charles-Edwards, T. M., “Taliesin (fl. 6th cent.)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26952>.
Isaac, Graham R., “‘Ymddiddan Taliesin ac Ugnach’: propaganda Cymreig yn oes y Croesgadau?”, Llên Cymru 25 (2002): 12–20.
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Jarman, A. O. H., “Taliesin”, in: A. O. H. Jarman, and Gwilym Rees Hughes (eds), A guide to Welsh literature, volume 1, rev. ed., Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1992. 51–67.
Haycock, Marged, “‘Preiddeu Annwn’ and the figure of Taliesin”, Studia Celtica 18–19 (1983–1984): 82–78.
Williams, Ifor, Lectures on early Welsh poetry, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 76 pp.
Reprinted in 1954, 1970 and 2009 (ISBN 9780901282262).
Williams, Ifor, “Darnau o ganu Taliesin”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 5:2 (1930, 1929–1931): 130–134.
Owen, Nicholas [ed.], “[V] A celebrated poem of Taliesin, translated into Sapphic verse by the Rev. David Jones, vicar of Llanfair-Duffrin-Clwyd in Denbigshire, A.D. 1580”, in: Nicholas Owen, British remains, or a collection of antiquities relating to the Britons, London: J. Bew, 1777. 121–128.
